Tag: the community
Teenage hackers take down JLR
Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has shut down its systems after suffering a cyber-attack. The group claiming responsibility for the attack, The Com, also referred to as Scattered Spider, is a loosely affiliated online community of predominantly teenage English-speaking hackers based in the UK and the US.
Cybercrime recruitment drive targets English-speaking teens
The most in-demand skill on cybercrime recruiting sites is English-speaking social engineering. According to cybersecurity company Reliaquest, job posts more than doubling from 2024 to 2025, with recruiters accounting for 87 percent of these postings, indicating strong demand.
Teenage hackers run rings around cyber-defenses
The recent UK retail cyberattacks that impacted Marks & Spencer and the Co-Op supermarket chain are only the tip of a very large iceberg that now threatens organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. Although media reports have attributed the attacks to a group named “Scattered Spider,” the actual threat is far bigger. For a start, there is no criminal group that actually calls itself “Scattered Spider”, which is just a made-up name attributed by cybersecurity researchers. These attacks and many others in the US and the UK are now known to be the work of a vast sprawling network of hackers, some as young as 14, spread across the US and the UK. They call themselves “the Community”, or “the Com” for short, and are essentially a vast teenage subculture of criminal hackers.